Aspects of the Theory of Clitics

by Anderson, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780199279913
• ISBN10: 0199279918
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is the first book to cover the grammar of clitics from all points of view, including their phonology and syntax and relation to morphology. In the process, it deals with the relation of second position clitics to verb-second phenomena in Germanic and other languages, the grammar ofcontracted auxiliary verbs in English, noun incorporation constructions, and several other much discussed topics in grammar. Stephen Anderson includes analyses of a number of particular languages, and some of these - such as Kwakw'ala ("Kwakiutl) and Surmiran Rumantsch - are based on his own fieldresearch. The study of clitics has broad implications for a general understanding of sentence structure in natural language. Stephen Anderson's clearly-written, wide-ranging, and original account will be of wide interest to scholars and advanced students of phonology, morphology, and syntax.

Author Biography

Stephen R. Anderson is Professor of Linguistics, Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University. He has previously taught at Harvard University, UCLA, Stanford, and The Johns Hopkins University. Among his other books are A-Morphous Morphology (1992), The Language Organ, co-authored by David Lightfoot (2002), and Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language (2004). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has held a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Table of Contents

General Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	1	(8)
What is a Clitic?	9	(28)
Words, Clitics, and Affixes	9	(5)
Case I: An Introduction to Kw akw' ala Clitics	14	(8)
Dimensions of Clitic-hood	22	(2)
Case II: How ``Simple'' are English Auxiliary Clitics?	24	(7)
Special Clitics	31	(2)
Clitics and Affixes	33	(4)
The Phonology of Cliticization	37	(38)
Prosodic Structure	37	(7)
Dimensions of Phonological Cliticization	44	(11)
Prosodic Structure and Syntactic Structure	55	(9)
Phonological Clitics and Cliticization in English	64	(11)
Special Clitics and their Grammar	75	(32)
Phenomenology	76	(6)
Special Clitics as the Morphology of Phrases	82	(7)
Some Examples	89	(18)
Theories of Special Clitics	107	(20)
The Nature of the Problem	108	(8)
Syntactic Theories of Clitic Placement	116	(11)
An Optimal Theory of Clitic Positioning	127	(50)
Special Clitics as Phrasal Morphology	127	(15)
Second Position: Anchors and Domains	142	(10)
``Endoclitics''	152	(13)
Tagalog Second-Position Clitics	165	(12)
Verb Second as Alignment	177	(50)
Verb Movement and Second Position	178	(5)
Icelandic	183	(4)
Kashmiri	187	(6)
Breton	193	(11)
Surmiran Rumantsch	204	(20)
Conclusions	224	(3)
Pronominal Clitics	227	(30)
Pronouns and Agreement	228	(11)
Clitics, Agreement, and Doubling	239	(6)
Clitic Climbing	245	(4)
Subject Clitics	249	(8)
Clause Structure and the Grammar of Incorporation	257	(32)
Introduction: Two Approaches to Noun Incorporation	258	(6)
Fleshing Out the Syntactic and Lexical Accounts	264	(11)
Noun Incorporation: Syntax or Lexicon?	275	(6)
Denominal Verb Formation in West Greenlandic	281	(5)
Conclusion	286	(3)
References	289	(14)
Index of Subjects	303	(8)
Index of Names	311	(4)
Index of Languages	315